Corset



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Corset.

Patented March 15,1881

N.PETERS. PHOIQ-LITHOGRAFNER. WASHINGTON, D (:7

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ANDREW F. LOOMER, OF BIRMINGHAM, CONNECTICUT.

CORSET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 238,795, dated March15, 1881.

Application filed November 26, 1880. (ModeL) To all whom it may concernBe it known that I, ANDREW F. LOOMER, of Birmingham, in the county ofNew Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement inCorsets; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connectionwith the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference markedthereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, andwhich said drawings constitute part of this specification, andrepresent, in

Figure 1, a side view, and in Fig, 2 a diagram illustrating the out ofthe hip-section.

This invention relates to an improvementin corsets with specialreference to the hip-section, the object being to make the cut of thesection so as not to depend to the usual extent upon the boning to givethe required shape to the corset and it consists in the construction, ashereinafter described, and particularly recited in the claims.

A, Fig. 2, represents the rear part, and B the front part, of thehip-section. The front edge of the part A is cut, starting near the rearedge of the part, curving downward and forward in concave shape forabout two-thirds of its length, thence by a reverse curve to the bottom.The rear edge of the part B is cut starting from near the front edge atthe bottom, curving backward and upward in concave shape for aboutonehalf its length, thence by a reverse curve to the top, as seen inFig. 2. The two edges thus shaped are brought together, making a seamrunning from the point a under the arm downward to a point, b, near thelower edge, as seen in Fig. 1. This difference in the curvature of theedges gives to the section a curve corresponding to the shape of thebody under the arm, downward and inward to the waist-1ine,thenceexpanding over the hip, and is a shape which, in practice, is found toavoid to a great extent the wrinkling over the hip and atthe waistline.

In boning the corset a lower series, C, of 5 hip-sectiornas that, I amaware, is not new;

but

What I do claim is- 1. A corset having the hip-section composed of theparts A B, the meeting edge of the two parts curved to form a seam, a1), running from near the rear edge of the section at the top downwardand forward to near the front edge of the section, substantially asdescribed.-

2. A corset having the hip-section composed of the parts A B, themeeting edge of the two parts curved to form a seam, to b, running fromnear the rear edge of the section at the top downward and forward tonear the front edge of the section, combined with a diagonal series ofbones, C, in the lower portion of the part A, and the series of bones Din the part B running from the top downward and parallel with the seam ab, substantially as described.

ANDREW F. LOOMER.

Witnesses:

J. W. GRANT, H. B. FRENCH.

